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The Underground Wealth of Nations: On the Capitalist Origins of Silver Mining, A.D. 1150-1450

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Silver mining was a capitalist business long before the supposed origin of modern capitalism Hundreds of years before a sixteenth†‘century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capitalism. Silver mines were large†‘scale businesses that demanded large investments and steady cash flow, achieved by spreading that risk through fungible shares and creating legal structures to protect entrepreneurs from financial disaster. Jeannette Graulau argues that mining preceded agriculture as the first true capitalist enterprise of the modern world.
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Year:
2019
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
384
ISBN 10:
0300249578
ISBN 13:
9780300249576
ISBN:
9780300249576,0300249578

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